Hi, Considering that voice synthesis takes on average 400 to 800 megs per voice and it has to be placed in RAM cache, reason why higher quality voices can't yet be included in IOS versions, the more ram you have, the smoother the audio experience. Nowadays ram isn't the only criteria, a good mbit/sec throughput with disks are also essential.
There is no real limit or base spec to get something working right as it all depends on how much a person customizes and scales his/her system to the needs and optimizations of a system for voice over. For instance, i use multiple languages in my system from acapella, and altogether it's about 5 gb of voices that need to be quikcly drawn up so to speak from the bus to ram to cache to output. So i personally need a lot of ram, and they do not come as too expensive these days when you look at different manufacturers who provide some real fast performing and affordable kits. Best Yuma On 25/06/2011, at 4:24 PM, Kliph&Sharrie wrote: > Okay, I am still on a few windows screen readers lists, since I teach a few > basic classes about JFW and know a lot about the windows side of things. > Anyways, someone said on this list that the average blind user needs no more > than 4 gigs of ram, at best anything over 8 would be a waste. I'm no exburt, > but I have done a little research, and googling and have found that the more > ram you have, the smoother your system will run, mac or PC. This person seem > to think even if you had a fast processor, that spending money on ram was a > waste. Now I will admitt, that apple is a little pricy when it comes to ram, > but there are third party sellers out there with compatable memory for just > about any system. Thoughts? Oh, 1 more thing this person said, that the > only way more than 4 gigs would be necessary is if you were doing some high > quality video or audio editting. What do you all think or know about these > numbers and comments? > > Sent from Minister Miller's IPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
